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Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere
“When you say there aren’t enough jobs, it’s because we’re training so many Ph.D.’s and convincing them all that the only way to remain a scientist is to stay in academia. It’s not, and that hasn’t been true for a long time.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-scientific-fraud-is-suddenly-everywhere.html
#Academia #Academic #Academics #PhD #Research #Science #STEM #Fraud @science
Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
“Mussolini’s propaganda was full of references to Latin and ancient Roman imagery. In 1936, after the end of the Italo-Ethiopian colonial war, the Duce boastfully announced from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia “the reappearance of the empire on the fatal hills of Rome.” A racial legislation carefully regulated the interactions between Italians and Ethiopians.”
Ronchini, Maria-Anita. “Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce” TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/benito-mussolini-life-duce/ (accessed May 24, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Italy #Italian #Europe #Mussolini #Fascism #Fascist #Fascists @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mussolini_LCCN2014717666_(cropped2).jpg
Lost in Translation: Genesis 1:1 is NOT About the Creation of the World
“The very first verse of the Bible–Genesis 1:1–which millions can quote by heart–is MIStranslated in most all major versions and all languages–with very few exceptions. The reasons are simple–Marketing and Commercialism.”
https://jamestabor.com/lost-in-translation-genesis-11-is-not-about-the-creation-of-the-world/
#Hebrew #Bible #Translation #Genesis #Ancient #Religion #History @religion
Colonial Business in Postcolonial Germany: The Imperial Afterlives of C. Woermann, 1919–1945
“This connection between colonialism and National Socialism is particularly significant when considering the war and occupation in Eastern Europe. It underscores that the ideology and practices of German colonialism did not simply vanish but rather persisted and were reconfigured within the Nazi regime.”
Todzi, K.S. (2024) ‘Colonial Business in Postcolonial Germany: The Imperial Afterlives of C. Woermann, 1919–1945’, Contemporary European History, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777324000171.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Empire #Europe #EasternEurope #Africa #Colonialism #Imperialism #Nazi #Nazis #Nazism #Business @histodon @histodons
Shakespeare and Language: A Reading List
#Video length: three minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6HNeiNYMuw
#Read #Reading #ReadingList #BookRecommendations #Literature #Shakespeare #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @literature @bookstodon
Richard Bourke - Hegel’s World Revolutions
“A conversation with Richard Bourke about his recent book “Hegel’s World Revolutions” (Princeton University Press).”
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thepoliticaltheoryreview/episodes/2024-05-24T11_17_20-07_00
#Audio #Podcast #Philosophy #Hegel #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon @philosophy
#Image attribution: Claus Grünstäudl w18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elegant_steel_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg
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📚 Exciting news for all #book lovers! 🎉 Check out Librivox, a fantastic platform that provides #FREE audiobooks of public domain literature. 🎧 Dive into classic #novels #poetry and more, all narrated by #volunteers from around the globe. 🌍 Explore the power of storytelling today! 💫 #Librivox #Audiobooks
Cavalier South vs Puritan North? Hypocrisy and Identity in the American Civil War
“This article highlights the ways Southern ministers claimed the puritan identity for the South and accused the North of hypocrisy, for having fallen far from the theological ideals of their puritan forebears. Furthermore, Southern ministers noted the hypocrisy of Northern puritans for having escaped religious tyranny only to impose it upon those who did not conform to their form of Christianity; they had thus fallen into the very sin which they had decried.”
Manger, E.G. (2024) ‘Cavalier South vs Puritan North? Hypocrisy and Identity in the American Civil War’, Studies in Church History, 60, pp. 431–452. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2024.16.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Hipocrisy #Identity #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
“The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of addictive properties, it might as well be stuffed with meth. There’s no point in grinding through a whole book—a chewy bunch of words arranged into a narrative or, heaven preserve us, an argument—when you can pick up your iPhone, touch the Times app, skip the news and commentary, head straight to Wordle, and give yourself an instant hit of euphoria and pride by taking just three guesses to reach a triumphant guano.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/can-you-read-a-book-in-a-quarter-of-an-hour
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Inventing Cyrillic
“In the 890s, having recently converted to Orthodox Christianity, Boris ensured his church would be independent from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Although interested in their religion, he was clearly concerned with curtailing Byzantine influence in his newly Christianised state. The alphabet offered an opportunity: by adopting it, Boris could ensure that Byzantine culture could not arrive in Bulgaria unmediated.”
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/inventing-cyrillic
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Cyrillic #Alphabet #Europe #Langauge #Medieval #Medievodons @histodon @histodons @medievodons
The Most Misunderstood Parable of Jesus
“The Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the most famous parables of Jesus. But people have been misinterpreting it for centuries.”
#Video length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0YyC4lEIBM
#Religion #Christianity #Jesus #Parable #Israelites #Samaritans @religion
People perceive parasocial relationships to be effective at fulfilling emotional needs
“Although strong two-sided relationships were consistently seen as the closest, most responsive, and most effective relationship type for fulfilling emotional needs, we found that people consider a strong PSR—someone they have never met (e.g., YouTube creator, a celebrity) and who may not even exist (e.g., fictional character)—as closer, and more effective at fulfilling their emotional needs than an acquaintance they interact with dyadically (i.e., their weak two-sided relationship).”
Lotun, S., Lamarche, V.M., Matran-Fernandez, A. et al. People perceive parasocial relationships to be effective at fulfilling emotional needs. Sci Rep 14, 8185 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58069-9
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Psychology #SocialMedia #Youtube #Emotions #Relationships #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
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ICYMI: Why Quantitative Easing is qualitatively important but quantitatively not so important https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/05/why-quantitative-easing-is.html
The importance of low interest rates rather than QE in explaining rising wealth inequality shows that valuation gains come with income losses (and vice versa).
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Thought for the Day: The way things are going, AI is going to be using even more electricity than cryptocurrencies, and be even more damaging to society. Impressive. Most impressive.
Fossil viruses hidden in our DNA thousands of years ago could be the cause of depression, study finds
“Ancient DNA present in humans may be linked to major psychiatric disorders like depression, researchers have said.
DNA sequences originating from ancient infections are found in the brain, with some contributing to susceptibility for conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, a study found”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/depression-cause-fossil-virus-dna-b2549421.html
#News #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #Science #STEM #Research @science
Episode 295 - The Forgotten Siege
“While Epirus was rising and falling, Nicaea was consolidating. John Vatatzes, the new Emperor, was competent at home and abroad. After years of consolidation he decided to besiege Constantinople. But he didn’t act alone he invited an unlikely ally to join him.”
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e43e82f1d3d0012737265
#Audio #Podcast #History #Byzantium #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
Times Old Roman
“The first true Roman typeface was designed by the Venetian printer Nicolas Jenson in 1470 and is the early modern ancestor of our font developed by Victor Lardent, a lettering artist at The Times, in London, in 1929.”
https://www.biblonia.com/p/times-old-roman
#History #Histodon #Histodons #TimesNewRoman #Typeface #Font @histodon @histodons
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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